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Record Nr.

UNINA9911028659203321

Autore

Tavolacci Laura

Titolo

Baptists, Bengalis, and the Construction of Agricultural and Horticultural Science in India, 1793-1840

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2025

©2025

ISBN

3-031-93099-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 pages)

Collana

Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies

Disciplina

630.95409034

Soggetti

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Imperialism

SCIENCE / History

TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India was founded in 1820 by an English Baptist missionary, William Carey.He was part of a network of missionaries centred at Srirampur (Serampore), the Danish settlement close to Calcutta.